More Than 150 Women Raped in South Sudan - Report
Aid organisation Medicins Sans Frontieres in a joint report with the UN, has said that up to 20 men are responsible for raping and assaulting women walking to collect food to take home to their families.
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South Sudan:
Grannies, Pregnant Women Raped
CAJ News, 3 December 2018
PREGNANT women, grandmothers and girls are among 125 women raped in the escalating violence in the war-torn South Sudan. The brutality has been most severe in the northern Rubkona… Read more »
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South Sudan:
Statement On the Situation in Bentiu, South Sudan
Unicef, 3 December 2018
Joint statement by Mark Lowcock, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, Henrietta Fore, UNICEF Executive Director, and Natalia Kanem,… Read more »
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South Sudan:
UN Condemns 'Brutal' Sexual Assaults On Roads to Bentiu
UN News, 3 December 2018
The United Nations peacekeeping mission in South Sudan has condemned a series of brutal sexual assaults on women and girls, travelling on the road to Bentiu, a town in the north of… Read more »
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South Sudan:
UN Says More Than 150 Women, Girls Raped in South Sudan
VOA, 5 December 2018
The United Nations says more than 150 women and girls in South Sudan have been raped or subject to other forms of sexual violence in recent days. Read more »
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